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Bursting with quirky facts, intriguing statistics, lists and legendary curators, this is the perfect gift for all those who love to visit museums and galleries.

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This beautifully illustrated alphabet book is perfect for children starting at nursery for the first time. Bright, animated pictures designed around each letter show children happily playing: building with bricks, sifting sand, listening to stories, singing, dancing and riding on the rocking horse. The rhyming text is ideal for reading out loud.

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This book tells the story of the transformation of the Grade-II-listed New Bodleian into the state-of-the-art Weston Library. Detailing this amazing architectural project from demolition in August 2011 to the opening of the visionary Weston Library in March 2015, it offers a fascinating insight into the major refurbishment of a landmark building.

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Over the last three-and-a-half centuries this glamorous, twenty-four hour city has attracted a multitude of thinkers, poets, novelists and playwrights, many of whom have brilliantly encapsulated its unique spirit through verse, prose or the ultimate wisecrack.

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The literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations is explored and lavishly illustrated through the unique collection of manuscripts, early prints, maps, and other treasures from the Bodleian Library in Oxford. The book sheds new light on the literature and art of a pivotal period in European history.

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'Novel Houses' visits unforgettable dwellings in twenty legendary works of English and American fiction. A winning combination of literary criticism, geography and biography, this is an entertaining and insightful celebration of beloved novels and the extraordinary role that houses play in their continuing popularity.

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Daniel Meadows is a pioneer of contemporary British documentary practice. Drawing on the archives now held at the Bodleian Library, this book includes important work from Meadows ground-breaking projects and offers a moving and insightful commentary on forty-five years' of life in Britain.

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Lavishly illustrated with photographs taken throughout the seasons, this book not only provides a fascinating historical overview but also offers a practical guide to the Oxford Botanic Garden and its work today. Featuring a map and a historical timeline, it is guaranteed to enhance any visit, and is also a beautiful souvenir to take home.

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This compact gift book is packed full of witty, scandalous and entertaining quotations about this famous city from the Middle Ages to the current decade.

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52 documents and objects from the University Archives are showcased here, telling a wide range of intriguing stories about the University. Arranged chronologically, the items all illustrated unlock human stories to which we can relate today, and include people who would perhaps not be expected to feature in a history of Oxford University.

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Describing the capital variously as a city of lovers, gastronomy, fashion and filth, myriad quotations sometimes poetic, sometimes humorous and always fizzing with insight are collected here.

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This is a delightful story of the emperor penguins that live far away on the edge of a secret sea, told in narrative form with beautiful, timeless illustrations.

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Drawing from the Bodleian Librarys collections, this richly-illustrated book features extracts from letters, journals, diaries and memoirs written by a diverse cast of onlookers. Put into context with introductory notes, these first-hand accounts give a fascinating insight into the tumultuous year of 1917.

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This essay examines the power of language to shape political ideas. In it, Orwell argues that when political discourse trades clarity and precision for stock phrases, the debasement of politics follows. First published in 'Horizon' in 1946, Orwells ideas continue to be relevant to our own age.

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Within Shakespeare's lifetime there was already some curiosity about what the writer of such brilliant poems, sonnets and plays looked like. Yet like so much else about him, Shakespeare's appearance is mysterious. This generously illustrated book offers a new perspective on Shakespeare likenesses, as well as exploring the afterlife of these images.

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An established reference work, this revised and expanded edition has over 200 new colour illustrations, updated bibliographies and extended international coverage of libraries and online resources. It covers inscriptions, bookplates, ink and binding stamps, mottoes and heraldry, and describes how to identify owners and track down books.

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This book provides a unique visual history of the Qur'an using fifty-five rare, beautiful and significant Qur'an manuscripts, providing a lavishly illustrated historical overview of one of the most influential, most memorized and enduring sacred books in our world.

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Rachel Owens hauntingly beautiful illustrations for Dantes 'Inferno' take a radically new approach to representing the world of Dantes famous poem. The images combine the artists deep cultural and historical understanding of 'The Divine Comedy' and its artistic legacy with her unique talent for collage and printmaking.

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Ralph Ayres was head cook at New College in the 1770s. This book is a fascinating insight into the eighteenth-century kitchen, a period of great interest to social and culinary historians, and includes recipes for famous dishes such as Quaking Pudding, and Oxford Sausages.

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This lavishly illustrated book features highlights from the collections ranging from the iconic Dodo and the giant tuna to crabs collected by Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle, David Livingstones tsetse fly specimens and Mary Annings ichthyosaur.

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In late medieval England, ordinary people, apothecaries and physicians gathered up practical medical tips for everyday use. While some were sensible herbal cures, many were weird and wonderful. This book selects some of the most revolting or remarkable remedies from medieval manuscripts in the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

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Accompanied by a range of arresting images, this book is a compilation of some of Lenins most famous sayings, taken from speeches, tracts, letters and recorded conversations. These proclamations offer an insight into the atmosphere of Revolutionary Russia and the mind of one of the twentieth centurys most defining political figures.

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Reynard was once the most popular and beloved character in European folklore. Expanded with new interpretations, innovative language and characterisation, this edition is an imaginative re-telling of the Reynard story and as relevant and controversial today as it was in the fifteenth century.

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Oxford has an outstanding collection of plant specimens, botanical illustrations and rare books on plant classification, collecting and plant biology. Celebrating 400 years of Oxford botany, this book profiles the botanists and collections which have helped to transform our understanding of the biology of plants over the past four centuries.